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3D Face Match and Morph from a Photograph

Name:	Steve Flowers
Date Posted:	Apr 13, 2007
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For the 3D folks out there as well as the programmer types. I'm not sure I believe what I'm seeing in this video. Pretty amazing stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA

The video demonstrates a system where a generic mesh is positioned atop a still image. The software runs some auto-matching algorithms and conforms the mesh to the 'contours' of the face in the photograph. It then samples the textures, seems to apply another displacement map for details.

The end result is a 3D mesh of the face that can be morphed through preset targets. In the video, Tom Hanks (from Forrest Gump) puts on an extra hundred pounds or so.

Technology is moving so fast, makes me wonder where we will be in a couple of years. Too bad it can't seem to solve real global problems. At least we'll have good entertainment (movies, console / PC games, art) when we are tearing each other to shreds over politics, religion, and money:) Maybe the creative people should be given the keys to the planet...

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Jesse Chounard (Apr 13, 2007 at 12:42 GMT)

Wow! That was pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing that link.

Mark (Apr 13, 2007 at 13:25 GMT)

That was pretty damn impressive

Michael Perry (Apr 13, 2007 at 13:40 GMT)

Wow...amazing stuff. I'm all for giving the creative people the keys to the world...that or:

Quote:

"Have the wars fought only by the assholes who start them. . ."

Thak (Apr 13, 2007 at 13:44 GMT)

www.facegen.com/

If you want to use that same technology in your games. ;)

Daz (Apr 13, 2007 at 14:22 GMT)

That is insane!

Steve Flowers (Apr 13, 2007 at 14:48 GMT)

Facegen is cool, played with it awhile ago. Not anywhere near as sophisticated as this seems though.

J Sears (Apr 13, 2007 at 14:54 GMT)

that video was pretty insane, have to wonder when technology that nice will be cheap though

Andy Hawkins (Apr 13, 2007 at 15:02 GMT)

Incredible. Good thing video is not admissable in court :)

Aaron E (Apr 13, 2007 at 17:15 GMT)

Wow. That was a fun video to watch. Thanks for posting.

Joshua Dallman (Apr 13, 2007 at 17:54 GMT)

That's insane!

Cary Howe (Apr 13, 2007 at 19:50 GMT)

The first half of the video just seemed like a variation on traditional morphing but how they were applying it was stunning. Add this to a system like Face Robot and you'd have an amazing tool. They try to do something similar in Poser but the technology is radically different. Poser is pretty clunky to use. Curious how far away a commercial application is?

Todd Pickens (Apr 13, 2007 at 22:37 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Fantastic, that is really very cool.

Dustin Sims (Apr 13, 2007 at 23:42 GMT)

Like every one else, I am amazed...
Very Cool..

Unsung Zero (Apr 14, 2007 at 02:50 GMT)

I'm both amazed and concerned. wow...

Frank Carney (Apr 14, 2007 at 18:14 GMT)

This is awesome! Just one step away (voice) from bringing dead people back to life. Imagine using this to study ancient people just from a picture or sculpture. Very, very, cool!

Tom Bentz (Apr 15, 2007 at 20:24 GMT)

If this is real it is wicked cool...

Robert (Jun 25, 2007 at 03:52 GMT) Resource Rating: 4

this is amazing!

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